Carriage-seat



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G. LfJ'OHNSON.

CARRIAGE SEAT.

' Patented Deo. l5, 1.891.

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CARRIAGE SEAT.

Patented Deo. 15,1891.

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES- L. JOHNSON, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARRIAG E-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,375, dated December 15, 1891.

Application filed February 5, 1891. Serial No. 380,286. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. JOHNSON, a citizen .of Sweden, and a resident of Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Masresents a cross-section on the line X X shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4. represents a side elevation showing the rear seat as reversed. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section on the line Y Y shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 6 represents a cross-section on the line Z Z shown in Fig. l.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the dierent parts of the drawings.

A is the bottom board; B, the toe-board; C C, the body sides, and D the hinged tail-board, inthe usual manner.

E is the upright top'bar, and F is the upright center brace on which the front seat is supported. G is a semicircular guide-iron secured to said top bar and center brace,

serving as a support and guide for the front seat. The front seat is divided transversely into two coequal sections H, pivoted at the front portion to the forward end of the center brace F, as shown in Fig. 1, to enable eit-her one of said front-seat portions to be swung outward to enable passengers to get easily into or out of the space back of said front seat.

H H are guide-plates secured to the under sides of the front-seat sections H H and adapt' ed to receive the circle G, in this manner serving as guides in operating said front-seat portions and to limit their forward swinging m0- tions.

`The front-seat portions H H are normally secured together by means of a suitable locking device H, as shown in Fig. 8.

I is a brace on which the rear seat K is pivseat is turned to the position shownin Figs.

l, 2, and 5.

The back seat may be reversed to the position shown in Fig. 4 simply by swinging it half a revolution around the pivot 7c and locking it to the body sides by means of any suit able locking mechanism. In Fig. 6 I have shown a very simple locking mechanism for this purpose, consisting, preferably, of a pivoted spring-pressed lock-lever L, pivoted -at Z to the side of the rear seat K and having in one end a projection Z', adapted to lock in a socket Ovin the body side C and having in its other end a push-button Z, projecting upward through a perforation in said rear seat K.

That I Wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is 1. The combination, withqthe bottoni board of a carriage-body, of the upright top bar E, the upright center brace F, the semicircular guide-iron G, secured at the upper portion of the top bar and center brace, and the transversely-divided seat extending over the top bar and having its two sections pivoted at their front portions and each having a guideplate H', engagingthe semicircular guide-iron, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the bottom board A, body sides C, and reversible rear seat K, of the upright top bar E, the upright center brace F, the seniicircular guide-iron Gr, secured to the upper portions of the top bar and center brace, and the transversely-divided front seat having its sections pivoted at their front portions and provided with guide-plates H', engaging the semicircular guide-iron, substantially as described.

In testiuionywh'ereof I have signed my naine to this specification, in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses,on this 31st day of December, A. D. 1890.

CHARLES L. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, ALICE A. PERKINS. 

